Six tips for making creative talents like geniuses

As it is said that "genius and weirdhe is paper," there are many people who are told that there were unusual habits and routines in artists and artists who left excellent works. For example, I had a variety of talents with scholars / writers / politiciansBenjamin FranklinIn the custom called "air bath", I had a habit of spending naked in front of the opening window every morning. Managing this does not mean I can be a genius, but I have summarized six hints that may be able to demonstrate their creative talents.

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◆ 1: Become a morning person


Celebrities known for getting up early are musicians'Mozart, Painter'sGeorgia O'Keeffe, Of the architectFrank Lloyd WrightThere are many such as novelistHemingway"In the early morning there is no one who disturbs you, the cold wind brings back the work to sanity, the circumference becomes warmer enough to write sentences," suggesting early risingNicholson · BakerI also had a habit of getting up at 4:30 every morning. Particularly for writing writers it may be efficient to work in the morning.

However, it does not mean that people working at night do not succeed.Marcel ProustOften got up between 15 and 18 o'clock and had the custom of sucking opium soon to ease asthma, then eating coffee and croissants. Even psychologically, it is not known which of "morning" and "night type" is better.

◆ 2: Do not abandon regular work


A novelistFranz KafkaI worked at an insurance company, but I kept writing a book every hour from 22:30 to dawn every evening. Also, a novelistWilliam FaulknerAlso using the afternoon time, before the night shift of the power plant "Lying on the floor of death"Produced. A poetT · S · EliotofLloyd's BankI got him a stable income.

Many artists do not neglect to take regular jobs, and we have published excellent works with a short time span. It is because you can earn a stable living fund to build a work by having regular work and you can concentrate by limiting time.

◆ 3: I take a lot of walks


If you take a walk in nature, imagination is cultivated and productivity rises. The musician often had walking habits,Beethoven,Mahler,SatieCan be mentioned,TchaikovskyAlso made it a habit to take a walk for two hours a day and believed that a great misery would arise if it returned from a walk earlier in a few minutes.

Going for a walk is a distraction of work when you are deeply thinking about something, you can leave things that hinder the concentration of TV, computers, etc.

◆ 4: to penetrate customs


A novelistGustave · FlowerHe got up at 10 o'clock and hit the ceiling, calling his mother, chatting on the bed every morning, the architectLe CorbusierI got up at 6 o'clock every morning and had gymnastics for 45 minutes. The common point between the two is that they continued to practice habits without losing one day. In the same way,Patricia · HighsmithHe ate only bacon and eggs at all meals.

Be a psychologistWilliam James"By automatically and customarily making parts of everyday life, we reduce spiritual burden, and automated and free areas will be used in fields of interest." Even if there is a custom that seemingly seemingly strange, that means that it has a role to demonstrate power in another field.

◆ 5: ingest effective ingredients


There are also cases where you can help with "chemicals" when doing creative activities. For example, a poetW · H · Oden, Author'sAin Land, NovelistGraham GreenThey are synthetic stimulantsBenzedrineIt is known that you were using the mathematicianPaul ErdöschIs a psychotropic drug in addition to benzedrineRitalinAlso used. Even if it does not lead to drugs, there are countless numbers of people who prefer alcohol such as vodka · jin · whiskey. Under these circumstances, coffee is widely accepted for centuries as what we take when doing creative work.

BeethovenHe counted 60 coffee beans myself for the dark coffee every morning, and the philosopher'sSeiren KierkegaardHe poured black coffee into a sugar filled cup and drew a novelistBalzacI drank fifty cups of coffee a day.

Caffeine increases concentration, but Balzac died of heart failure at the age of 51,Taking things in proper quantityIt is important.

◆ 6: Choose where to work


A novelistJane AustenI wrote the most work in my life in the 1810s, but the work place was near my side where my mother sewing in the living room. Also of a novelistAgatha ChristieHe did not have his own desk, he could work anywhere with a stable desk and typewriter. Recent research also reveals that workers working in a coffee shop rather than working in quiet places have a positive influence on the creative thinking of noise around the gayagaya.

It is certain that a perfect and comfortable working space will improve the efficiency of the work, but it does not necessarily lead to a wonderful work. One of the talents is vitality that you can work anywhere without worrying about surroundings like a stubborn custom of geniuses.